Myth busted: Losing weight can actually make you fatter!

Our health expert Simon explains why...

Let’s cut to the chase: A lot of people are hitting the gym because they want to lose weight. While that is an admirable goal, it should not be your main focus. Our health expert Simon Bradeley explains why you should NOT just focus on losing weight and how it can in fact make you fatter.

What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of stone?

This playground favourite might not fool everyone, but it does capture the essence of Simon’s reasoning: not everything weighs the same. While feathers are large in volume but small in weight, a stone is the opposite... The same goes for fat and muscle. Fat has large volume but low weight. Muscle, on the other hand, is a lot heavier but more compact. Only focusing on weight doesn’t take this into account at all

A regular bathroom scale can be deceiving…

To measure your health correctly, you will need to measure your muscle mass and fat percentage as well. If you don’t, the scale can say you have lost weight, but it might very well be the case that you just gained more fat and lost muscle! Needless to say, this is not a healthy development. Body Composition is key. This is where a Tanita Body Composition Monitor will come in handy: you can measure your body mass, fat percentage and more! Learn more about your Body Composition here

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